The burning Christmas turkey, for example.
Whether it's forgetting to eat breakfast, burning the turkey or some other bone-headed mistake (and believe us, we've made them all), a few speed-bumps along the way are inevitable on our favorite eating holiday.
During this time of year, with the holidays approaching, I find there are even more opportunities for failure - burning the turkey, forgetting to invite or acknowledge someone, saying the wrong thing, and so on.
Such as mother always burning the turkey, and brother always breaking things.
In practicality it would be hard to quit burning fossil fuels cold turkey, so we need to start sooner.
In the estimation of Caltech chemist Nate Lewis: "If the world stopped burning fossil fuel cold turkey, it would take 10,000 years for the atmosphere to return to its pre-industrial composition.
In order to keep the turkey from burning, you have to be sure to wait to put it on until after the coals have died down enough to be covered with a fairly uniform layer of gray ash; you want the temperature to be between 300 and 325 degrees.
While we stuffed ourselves on Thanksgiving turkey, she was burning calories.
There's a fine line between browning turkey cold cut and burning it.
defer.add img); Cover the bottom of the crock pot with water or broth or sliced vegetables to help keep the turkey from sticking or burning and also to add flavor.
